Just like anything else you want to inspire people to do on your website, your best bet is to ask them. And for Twitter sharing, click-to-tweet calls-to-action are super helpful.

While I heart CoSchedule, and they have this beautiful Click-to-Tweet tool, it's only for Wordpress. That's right, if you're on Squarespace, you can't use Click-to-Tweet {sad face}. So, I had to find another option.

I looked at Click-to-Tweet for Squarespace.

Click-to-Tweet is reliable and simple. But...it didn't look lovely on my site. In fact, the copy kept showing up invisible {which I guess means it wasn't showing up at all} unless I edited Click-to-Tweet’s embed code, and it wouldn’t line up the way I wanted with the Twitter icon.

I considered the DIY option that came up first in my Google search

This is the first thing that comes up on google search for how to add click-to-tweet to Squarespace. And option two is really smart. But way more work than I want to do. And not just because I have very mixed feelings about Twitter in general. Adding "%20%" between each word in the quote I want my people to be able to Tweet.

As an entrepreneur, every little thing that takes a few minutes adds up very quickly and can become very costly. I need stuff like this to be set-it-and-forget-it.

Here's how I add click-to-tweet to my Squarespace site.

It’s a little bit more work up front than the other two options. And then basically no work ever again.

With the simple CSS code you can customize the appearance to match your branding. And it’s nice that you can embed it right in your copy, rather than disrupting the reader’s flow with an extra block quote somewhere. Both approaches are perfectly fine. It’ll look in the tweet like it didn’t shorten your link, but it does shorten it.

At first, I didn't think it worked. But I found that if I saved and viewed my page live, it was indeed all there.

On the Twitter intent page, it looks like this. {Don't worry, that link will be shortened.}

And live on Twitter, it looks like this.

{I removed the @rachelbjordan handle when I Tweeted it to see if it worked. Because mentioning myself in a tweet would be weird.}

Here's how Muno Creative's click-to-tweet coding for Squarespace looks in a real-live Tweet.

That's all there is to it.

There you go. @@You can embed Tweetable quotes in your Squarespace site!@@

ps: THREE things to keep in mind

This option is fast and easy, so it's perfect for me. But, there are a couple of things to know before you use it:

1} It doesn't work for the opening test in a blog post.

If you try to put it in the opening words of your blog post, you'll get weird code in the live view of your post. Even though it looks fine in your Squarespace editor.

2} It picks up any formatting as html code.

If you have a bold word in your Tweetable quote, you're going to get the < strong > HTML tag language in your Tweetable quote.

3} It doesn't always load right in content aggregators.

Feeding your content to Feedly, Flipboard, or something else? Cross-publishing to Medium or LinkedIn? The click-to-tweet coding only works within the Squarespace environment. Anywhere else, and Your little @@ symbols will show up as plain old @@ symbols.

hey. are you struggling to get people to pay attention to what you're trying to say?

If no one's picking up on what you're putting out there...if you feel like you're saying what you think people want you to say...if you just can't get to the right words...